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Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday. Digital strategist Effie Kapsalis was dedicated to building bridges between Smithsonian collections and audiences. In a Smithsonian career spanning nearly twenty years, Effie mobilized her colleagues to share more diverse stories, break down…
Deborah Shapiro We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this fall. Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics. The reference team fields thousands of…
Frederica Adelman, Director, Smithsonian Associates During her long career with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Service (SITES) between 1987 and 2013, the author worked closely with the museums that hosted Field to Factory . She connected the more than fifty museums with the Smithsonian, with local organizations, and with one another. Current headlines about war and the impact of forced…
For National Coffee Day, we share the eye-opening conservation of a damaged field book authored by the champion of the Smithsonian Bird Friendly Coffee program. We’re lucky that our interns love coffee, because for this summer’s final project, I selected Russell Greenberg’s Field notes, Xalapa and Chiapas, Mexico, 2001 for a full conservation treatment. If you’ve not had your morning cup yet, you…
William Bennett Conservator William Bennett shares highlights from his August 2022 visit to the United Kingdom, where he visited four archival repositories, viewed and studied 54 different documents, and spoke with three local experts in his quest to better understand the Hungerford Deed and James Smithson’s milieu. Readers of The Bigger Picture will be familiar with the Hungerford Deed, a 1787…
Maia Johnston, Institutional History Division Intern A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of the recordings featured Brigitte Blachere, a program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years. Nothing about the Smithsonian Institution can be described as small, especially the impact of…
As a laborer at the Smithsonian from 1882 until his death in 1918, Harrison Lomax served the Institution’s top leaders. A letter in our collections that he wrote to Secretary Samuel P. Langley is an example of the ways in which African American employees advocated for themselves in order to earn promotions and raises. Harrison Lomax had already worked for the Smithsonian for 21 years when he wrote…
Mariah Wahl, Data Specialist, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives We’re e xploring the storied history of Friday Harbor Labs , a MarineGEO site, in Washington State . Friday Harbor Labs, formerly known as the Puget Sound Biological Station, has been a professional home to many Smithsonian scientists, including groundbreaking women such as Mary Rice and Mildred Stratton Wilson . Located on San Juan…
Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday. Lillian Kozloski was a specialist with the National Air and Space Museum’s department of science and technology from 1977 to 1995. She was an expert in the history and development of space suits and of women in aerospace. In 1994, she published…
Kira Sobers We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours , the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections. Over the last two years, we have shared a lot about The World Is Yours , the Smithsonian’s first educational radio program, but that is certainly not the only radio show in our collections.…
